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Have you ever been willfully ignorant?

Have you ever been willfully ignorant?


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Be honest. Have you ever been willfully ignorant in a political debate, here or elsewhere? If so, why? Did you think it was necessary to get your point across? Did you think the person you were debating was introducing information that was irrelevant to the discussion? Did you have a personal attachment to topic that you felt was threatened by the information you were ignoring?

In addition, when you realize someone else is being willfully ignorant, how do you respond?
 
when i feel that someone tends to act dishonestly during a debate ,i may be willfully ignorant to defend myself,because only way to beat off this kind of attacks is to play ignorant.

when the others are willfull ignorant ,i never believe that they are ignorant:mrgreen:
 
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Yes, I hate to admit it but I have (in the distant past) voted for a Democrat or two. I'm older and wiser now, so the mistake will not be repeated.
 
I'm a design engineer. Willful ignorance gets in the way of getting things to actually work. I started designing things very early. Willful ignorance never helped me get things to work.
 
Yes, I hate to admit it but I have (in the distant past) voted for a Democrat or two. I'm older and wiser now, so the mistake will not be repeated.

Yup, you don't need to know much when you've made your decision before the question comes up. You've solved all your problems and don't need to think any more. Cool.
 
Not willfully, but it can certainly be fun to play it for all it's worth in the right circumstances. ;)
 
I do not have to be willful to be ignorant. It just comes naturally to me.
 
playing ignorant is fun so long as the circumstances justify
 
I made a pact with satan to never deceive myself or participate in willful ignorance when I was a child.
 
I don't think I've been willfully ignorant. Typically if I don't get/am unfamiliar with something somebody posts I'll just flat out say so.
 
I like to play devils advocate alot so yeah, i'll purposely act ignorant at times.
 
Of course not, I'm only ignorant of things I don't know about!
 
Willful ignorance is sometimes known as sucker bait. Create a little suction and see what can be drawn in, like crap draws flies.
 
Sorry I don't understand the question....:mrgreen:
 
Yup, you don't need to know much when you've made your decision before the question comes up. You've solved all your problems and don't need to think any more. Cool.

Yup. Once an approach to a problem has been proven not to work, I don't waste any more time trying it over and over again while hoping for a different result. It's called "learning from experience."
 
Be honest. Have you ever been willfully ignorant in a political debate, here or elsewhere? If so, why? Did you think it was necessary to get your point across? Did you think the person you were debating was introducing information that was irrelevant to the discussion? Did you have a personal attachment to topic that you felt was threatened by the information you were ignoring?

In addition, when you realize someone else is being willfully ignorant, how do you respond?

Does your definition of "willfully ignorant" essentially mean "playing dumb?"
 
To be ignorant is to lack knowledge, information, or awareness.

I don't believe any political parties champion those three aspects.
 
Yup. Once an approach to a problem has been proven not to work, I don't waste any more time trying it over and over again while hoping for a different result. It's called "learning from experience."
If the problem is actually identical. Often problems that are thought to be identical, because they share several high level issues, but they are not in detail; then a solution that worked before may not work in the new application or vice versa.
Here is one from engineering: Standard solution "Work with convention when cooling an electronics rack with fans, i.e. blow from bottom to top." Wrong! If a piece of printer paper falls to the floor and slides over to my cabinet design it gets sucked up blocking the air intake, cooling failure. But some people would just say its the papers fault.
 
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I've never done that on DP -- though every once in a great while I'll play devil's advocate. Usually get myself in trouble when I do that. Ha!

In my real life, I often play dumb. I get a lot more done that way as a blonde. ;)
 
I am willfully ignorant on a few things, but it isn't because of politics it is due to lack of money and wanting to have made the right consumer choice. I specifically do this with videogames, and Apple stuff. For the most part my videogame choices Xbox mainly, and my tech choices: iPhone, Mac, etc are the best choices but there are several glaring reasons why they are bad choices, and I either redirect someone telling me those things, or essentially try to make them out to be liars. I don't know, its just a thing I do.

Politically, I've learned to trust no one or few sources. I typically try to get my news and facts from various sources such as PBS, CNN, NYT, local news, AP, and general polling/news aggregation. I even do it with weather. I use my default weather app, weather channel weather app, local news weather app and go from there. Then again, I think weathermen are practicing politicians because they say the same ****ing thing right until the thing actually happens and then change there mind.
 
Be honest. Have you ever been willfully ignorant in a political debate, here or elsewhere? If so, why? Did you think it was necessary to get your point across? Did you think the person you were debating was introducing information that was irrelevant to the discussion? Did you have a personal attachment to topic that you felt was threatened by the information you were ignoring?

In addition, when you realize someone else is being willfully ignorant, how do you respond?

These is a pretty complex questions and my answer depends on the setting, my role and what I am trying to get out of the discussion. There are times where there are no facts at issue other times where opinion is all that matters and I do not hold back. If I am trying to get a discussion going or get deeper into an issue I will sometimes take sides, change positions, but, be intentionally ignorant I do not think so. I do not ignore facts and use them in an argument if they help towards resolution of an issue.

When I see someone is being intentionally ignorant I do not really mind unless they are being totally unresponsive, then what is the sense of getting into a discussion.

In the end, when I see someone simply playing games I.E. playing by rules only they know, refusing to acknowledge that which has been established, cherry picking and/or making fallacious statements which by their nature are only intended to further their personal goals of which I may not be aware of I thank them for their time and move on. There is no sense discussing anything after that.
 
To be ignorant is to lack knowledge, information, or awareness.

I don't believe any political parties champion those three aspects.
So I'll take this as a yes...
 
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